Defending the City

Minister Zhe's aged back turned icy cold...

Another volley of blood-soaked soldiers' heads was hurled over. Not long ago, these people had still been laughing and talking, yet in the blink of an eye, their heads and bodies had been parted. The old man knew the fiends were crushing the Allied Army's morale. Obviously, their goal had already been achieved.

Sweetness rose in his throat, and the old man coughed up a mouthful of hot blood.

"Cough, cough..."

Waving away the attendants and guards, Minister Zhe wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

The shadow of the gate tower cast a faint chill. Heads kept falling from the sky. They could not kill anyone, but they could shatter an army's courage and fighting spirit. Once their souls were gone, no number of troops or strength in battle would matter. Yet Minister Zhe had no solution. The fiends were using an Open Scheme, and they did not care in the least for morality or rules.

Aside from the cold-blooded and brutal Snake Demon Soldiers, who did not care about heads flying through the sky, the Nine Li soldiers were affected as well.

Qiao Jin pointed at the towering devices outside the city and gave a cold order.

"Blow up those antique stone throwers! Use fire oil bombs!"

The demon soldiers responsible for directing the rockets marked the locations and distances of the enemy stone throwers, then wrote down a string of complex numbers with charcoal. Another demon soldier carried them to the artillery position within the city. The artillery battalion's demon soldiers swiftly adjusted the launch racks' direction and elevation. Their accuracy was somewhat lacking, but the general area was correct.

They brought out the slender rockets and placed them on the racks, once again using homemade weapons from